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Recently, I gave the liberal webzine Salon.com and its enforcer Max Blumenthal a good boot for their stale smear of the immigration reform movement in general and VDARE.COM in particular. There's a convention in the trade that most publications will allow other journalists to respond when
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FrontPageMagazine.com - June 11, 2003 Peter Brimelow's The Worm in the Apple: How the Teachers Unions are Destroying American Education is available for purchase from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore. To the dismay of some on the radical Left, the post-Vietnam U.S. has bolstered its position as
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American Spectator, Mar/Apr 2003, Vol. 36, Issue 2 By Tom Bethell I attended an education conference in Washington the other day, and something unusual happened. It is not easy to notice when the watchdogs don't bark, but this time they surely didn't. The occasion was
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Peter Brimelow note to VDARE.COM readers: I was lured into this symposium on the somewhat goo-gooish British-based debate site openDemocracy.com by Anthony Browne, environment editor of the London Times and occasional VDARE.COM contributor. He was already embroiled there, opposing the "People Flow" report, basically a
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Remember Jesica Santillan? (Think back before the Iraq war.) She was the 17-year-old Mexican illegal alien who died in February after Duke University Medical Center bungled her heart-lung transplant. Recently, Duke University announced that it is establishing a $4 million "perpetual fund" in Santillan's memory. Duke
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The share price of Salon Media Group, the publisher of Salon.com webzine, closed Friday at $0.05 – that's five cents – down more than 99% from its $15.00-plus high after the company went public some four years ago. (To view this rape of the innocent investor, go
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(Isabel Lyman's blog) Doing Battle with the Bureaucratic Parasite. Peter Brimelow's much-praised book, The Worm in the Apple, calmly explains how government schools are in the grip of teachers' unions. The book is often wickedly funny. The 1999 National Education Association convention, for instance, is
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The Worm in the Apple: by Peter Brimelow Harper Collins, 2003, hardcover, 336 pp. Something certainly is rotten in American public education—actually, lots of things contribute to the sorry state of education—and Peter Brimelow shines a light where it's much needed, on the role of teachers
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May 20, 2003, Chicago Sun-Times By John O'Sullivan Remember the bell curve? Well, here comes its even more terrifying successor—the bow tie. Some years ago a Forbes columnist was compiling a chart for an article on education. The statistical relationship he uncovered in his research was so
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Rush Limbaugh show, third hour. [Rush 24/7 members link] (transcribed) RODGER HEDGECOCK: I've brought you the headline of the day, the quote of the day, the Danish pizza shop owner of the day. And now the book of the day. It's by Peter Brimelow, journalist
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Click here to return to Part 2... Peter Brimelow Can I just add, I agree completely with that. You see, the unions are not the whole problem in education. It's got lots of other problems. The problem is the system is not short of problems. [Laughter] Virginia is
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Peter Brimelow and John Merrifield spoke at the Independent Policy Forum Thursday, February 20, 2003. We're economically posting the Brimelow portion of the forum. For John Merrifield's remarks, click here. David Theroux Thank you very much, John. My next speaker is someone who has been a